David Garland

Professor

Education

Ph.D. 1984 (Socio-Legal Studies), University of Edinburgh; M.A. 1978 (Criminology), University of Sheffield; LL.B. 1977, University of Edinburgh.

Areas of Research/Interest

The welfare state; the American death penalty; the legal institutions of punishment and control; history and sociology of criminological knowledge; social solidarity; social theory; the work of Michel Foucault.

Fellowships/Honors

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015; Shimizu Visiting Professor at the LSE, 2014; Professorial Fellow, Edinburgh University, 2013-16; Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy 2013-; J.S. Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-7; Fellow of the American Society of Criminology; Elected a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1997 (Visit TBA); Honorary Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University 1998- present; Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association, class of 1997; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; a founding editor of Edinburgh Law Review, 1997; Founding Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology.